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* LonelyBachelorPad: Thane's apartment is pretty much built for a bachelor such as himself.
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Other cast members shown in the movie are Creator/ThomasFWilson as Thane's friend Al Dalby, Thane's idealistic friend. Creator/DeniseCrosby as Melanie, Thane's despicable boss. Creator/FredWillard as Ray, a polite insurance salesman who visits Thane. Creator/JaniLane as Vol, Thane's obnoxious rock-star wannabe neighbor. And Creator/JimCarrey (who was uncredited) as Death itself.
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Other cast members shown in the movie are Creator/ThomasFWilson as Thane's friend Al Dalby, Thane's idealistic friend. Creator/DeniseCrosby as Melanie, Thane's despicable boss. Creator/FredWillard as Ray, a polite insurance salesman who visits Thane. Creator/JaniLane [[Music/{{Warrant}} Jani Lane]] as Vol, Thane's obnoxious rock-star wannabe neighbor. And Creator/JimCarrey (who was uncredited) as Death itself.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm that night. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man man, Thane Furrows, who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm that night. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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Other cast members shown in the movie are Creator/ThomasFWilson as Thane's friend Al Dalby, Thane's idealistic friend. Creator/DeniseCrosby as Melanie, Thane's despicable boss. Creator/FredWillard as Ray, a polite insurance salesman who visits Thane. Creator/JaniLane as Vol, Thane's obnoxious rock-star wannabe neighbor. And Creator/JimCarrey (who was uncredited) as Death itself.
Other cast members shown in the movie are Creator/ThomasFWilson as Thane's friend Al Dalby, Thane's idealistic friend. Creator/DeniseCrosby as Melanie, Thane's despicable boss. Creator/FredWillard as Ray, a polite insurance salesman who visits Thane. Creator/JaniLane as Vol, Thane's obnoxious rock-star wannabe neighbor. And Creator/JimCarrey (who was uncredited) as Death itself.
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* FantasticRacism: Among Melanie's many vices is that she looks down on people with different nationalities.
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* WhatDoeaSheSeeInHim: Gender-inverted as Thane says this word-for-word regarding Marvin's marriage to Melanie.
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* WhatDoeaSheSeeInHim: Gender-inverted as Thane says this word-for-word regarding Marvin's marriage to Melanie.
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* AffablyEvil: Death is pretty creepy all things considered since he's been harassing Thane all day, but once he drops his scary act, he can be polite if socially-impaired,
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* AffablyEvil: Death is pretty creepy all things considered since he's been harassing Thane all day, but once he drops his scary act, he can be polite if socially-impaired,socially-impaired.
* AgeGapRomance: Marvin is old enough to be Melanie's father. Lampshaded by Thane as he describes Melanie as half Marvin's age.
* AgeGapRomance: Marvin is old enough to be Melanie's father. Lampshaded by Thane as he describes Melanie as half Marvin's age.
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* BenevolentBoss: In contrast to Melanie, Marvin is rather kind and friendly.
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* BenevolentBoss: In contrast to Melanie, Marvin is rather kind and friendly. Thane even describes him as. A boss who was tolerable.
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* BenevolentBoss: In contrast to Melanie, Marvin is rather kind and friendly.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times to be ridiculous (and admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times times, deeming it to be ridiculous (and admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight.that night. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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* TheCynic: Thane spends a majority of the movie giving bleak descriptions of mundane activities.
* TheLoad: As Death states, Thane spent his whole life griping instead of making himself useful. This doesn't stop Thane from using his trademark complaining against Death however.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else, though he does mention liking popcycles..
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else, though he does mention liking popcycles..popcycles.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Thane isn't so much unsympathetic as he does suffer through many misfortunes, it's just that he's pretty belligerent about life and can't stop complaining about every little inconvenience.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Thane isn't so much unsympathetic as he does suffer through many misfortunes, it's just that he's pretty belligerent about life and can't stop complaining about every little inconvenience.
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* BottleEpisode: About 95% of the entire film takes place in Thane's apartment.
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* EverythingIsBigInTexas: It's implied that the movie takes place in Texas since Thane at one point says he went to a Texas State Fair, but we are mostly limited to the confines of Thane's apartment.
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* SoulCrushingDeskJob: It's implied that Al works in an office, but he is anything but worn down by the mundanity of his job.
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* LowerClassLout: Thane is this in spades. He's abrasive, lives in a sustainable but admittedly small apartment, works as an unappreciated children's book author, and barely has a social life.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times to be ridiculous (though admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times to be ridiculous (though (and admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
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* BadBoss: Melanie publishes books that children make children happy and doesn't approve of anything that would either confuse or upset children, despite the fact that those upsetting aspects could be helpful to them.
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* {{Jerkass}}:
** Thane is quite belligerent and often acts anxious and impatient to everyone, including people who are remotely nice to him.
** Melanie, Thane's boss, is quite the bitch who is dedicated to publishing children's books to make money rather than anything that could be useful for children.
** Vol, Thane's neighbor, plays loud music which annoys Thane and has the gall to complain to Than when he bangs his ceiling.
** Death spends a majority of his screen time scaring the bejesus out of Thane.
** Thane is quite belligerent and often acts anxious and impatient to everyone, including people who are remotely nice to him.
** Melanie, Thane's boss, is quite the bitch who is dedicated to publishing children's books to make money rather than anything that could be useful for children.
** Vol, Thane's neighbor, plays loud music which annoys Thane and has the gall to complain to Than when he bangs his ceiling.
** Death spends a majority of his screen time scaring the bejesus out of Thane.
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* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Thane to Death at the end.
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* NiceGuy:
** Al, Thane's friend, is an idealist who tries to get Thane to see the best in life.
** Ray, the insurance salesman seen at the start of the movie, is also pretty polite to Thane, despite Thane's passive-aggression.
** Al, Thane's friend, is an idealist who tries to get Thane to see the best in life.
** Ray, the insurance salesman seen at the start of the movie, is also pretty polite to Thane, despite Thane's passive-aggression.
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* AffablyEvil: Death is pretty creepy all things considered since he's been harassing Thane all day, but once he drops his scary act, he can be polite if socially-impaired,
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* CeilingBanger: Thane does this to his upstairs neighbor Vol on account of the latter playing music too loud.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Death when Thane unleashes a ReasonYouSuckSpeechOnHim decides that Thane is more trouble than he's worth, even tellingGod himself that he won't be coming back for Thane.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Death when Thane unleashes a ReasonYouSuckSpeechOnHim ReasonYouSuckSpeech on him decides that Thane is more trouble than he's worth, even tellingGod himself telling God Himself that he won't be coming back for Thane.
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* DisproportunateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times to be ridiculous (though admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
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* DartboardOfHate: Thane has one of Melanie in his room.
* DisproportunateRetribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times to be ridiculous (though admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical).
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Death when Thane unleashes a ReasonYouSuckSpeechOnHim decides that Thane is more trouble than he's worth, even tellingGod himself that he won't be coming back for Thane.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm).
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine of a carpet cleaning company has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm).
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: Thane's griping and refusal to shut up caused him to do this to Death himself.
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* TheTalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Thane does this to Death.
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* TalkingTheMonsterDown: Thane does this to Death.
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* TalkingTheMonsterDown: TheTalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Thane does this to Death.
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* AIIsCrapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm).
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: Thane's griping and refusal to shut up caused him to do this to Death himself.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/ SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/ SteveOedekerk.Creator/SteveOedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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[[caption-width-right:Before Steve created the barn animals.]]
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedenkirk. It features Oedenkirk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedenkirk. Creator/ SteveOedekerk. It features Oedenkirk Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
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[[caption-width-right:Before Steve created the barn animals.]]
->'''Thane Furrows''': ''I'd rather be dead!''
'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedenkirk. It features Oedenkirk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
It was released in several film festivals that took place in January and February of 1992. It did not get any video release date, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdXEXFw4GIM but is available to watch on YouTube]].
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* AIIsCrapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm).
* BaitAndSwitch: After a scene where Melanie basically establishes her bitchy attitude and Thane's InnerMonologue hesitates to reprimand her, we get a scene where Thane puts his foot down and tells Melanie off. We see it's actually his inner monologue practicing but the real Thane does nothing of the sort, much to Inner Thane's dismay.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: Thane's griping and refusal to shut up caused him to do this to Death himself.
* DontFearTheReaper: Since Death is played by Creator/JimCarrey, could you expect anything else?
* FreakOut: Thane does this so many times it's almost criminal.
* JerkassHasAPoint: A MotorMouth jerk he may be, Thane brings up some good points, like how his neighbor plays his music too loud or how Melanie approves of books that are geared more to 5-year-olds or younger (like Happy the Clam) and not approving more practical books.
* TheOner: A majority of scenes are framed in one shot, most notably one scene where Thane is seen screwing around with an answering machine in his bedroom that lasts for about a minute.
* TakeThat: Thane at one point says that book publishing companies ;like the one he works at are trying to shield reality from children due to wanting to keep their innocence.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After telling off Melanie for her bitchy behavior, she silently leaves, and Thane sees this as a sign of him getting fired. He gets upset at first before deciding that he wasn't big on the job anyway.
* TalkingTheMonsterDown: Thane does this to Death.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else.
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[[caption-width-right:Before Steve created the barn animals.]]
->'''Thane Furrows''': ''I'd rather be dead!''
'''High Strung''' is an independent film that stars and was written by Creator/SteveOedenkirk. It features Oedenkirk as a short-tempered young man who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm tonight. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.
It was released in several film festivals that took place in January and February of 1992. It did not get any video release date, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdXEXFw4GIM but is available to watch on YouTube]].
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!!Tropes:
* AIIsCrapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm).
* BaitAndSwitch: After a scene where Melanie basically establishes her bitchy attitude and Thane's InnerMonologue hesitates to reprimand her, we get a scene where Thane puts his foot down and tells Melanie off. We see it's actually his inner monologue practicing but the real Thane does nothing of the sort, much to Inner Thane's dismay.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu: Thane's griping and refusal to shut up caused him to do this to Death himself.
* DontFearTheReaper: Since Death is played by Creator/JimCarrey, could you expect anything else?
* FreakOut: Thane does this so many times it's almost criminal.
* JerkassHasAPoint: A MotorMouth jerk he may be, Thane brings up some good points, like how his neighbor plays his music too loud or how Melanie approves of books that are geared more to 5-year-olds or younger (like Happy the Clam) and not approving more practical books.
* TheOner: A majority of scenes are framed in one shot, most notably one scene where Thane is seen screwing around with an answering machine in his bedroom that lasts for about a minute.
* TakeThat: Thane at one point says that book publishing companies ;like the one he works at are trying to shield reality from children due to wanting to keep their innocence.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After telling off Melanie for her bitchy behavior, she silently leaves, and Thane sees this as a sign of him getting fired. He gets upset at first before deciding that he wasn't big on the job anyway.
* TalkingTheMonsterDown: Thane does this to Death.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else.
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